aquarius

to be a creature of Air
you must, like a bird,
learn to wheel and dive.

the winds you must know
as intimately as your feathers.
in their currents you will gambol
as a tern plays
upon the waves
of the sea.

you must view the Earth
as a series of trees,
rooftops,
mountains,
what intrudes through the clouds
to your realm above.

your vocation is the hunt, and it is
all you know to do.
yours are the creatures below,
slow-moving and ancient of days.

one beady eye must be ever affixed
to the horizon, for the winds
have many moods.

move among them, falcon,
and you may yet know
the taste
of the starlight's zephyr.